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The Strategic Resource for Ecosystem Design and Activation
I believe there is a strong positioning proposal for forming an Intelligent Integrated Energy Ecosystem to confront the growing Grid Crisis.
Let’s Frame the Challenge– Across Europe, as well as the United States of America and multiple countries or regions globally, electricity grids are reaching structural limits
Increasing renewable penetration, growing electrification, distributed energy resources (DER), and the rise of prosumers have created a coordination problem of enormous complexity.
I wanted to provide a simple Executive Explainer on the The Integrated Interconnected Business Ecosystem (IIBE)
Background to the IIBE Model– Executive Summary
The global business environment is entering a decisive shift: from platform-centric models to dynamic, intelligent, interconnected ecosystems. The convergence of AI-driven intelligence, orchestrated collaboration, micro-ecosystem structures, and regenerative purpose is reshaping how value is created, governed, and scaled.
The Integrated Interconnected Business Ecosystem (IIBE) provides the operating logic for this transition. This expainer outlines the key dynamics, design principles, and strategic pathways that will define the Intelligent Business Ecosystem era from 2026 to 2030.
In my opinion and for many others, Ecosystems are the necessary pathway all Business will need to consider and then travel for dealing in a complex, challenging world where closer more deliberate collaboration and co-creation will be needed, to solve more complicated problems that individual organizations will find it increasingly difficult to be able to solve these on their own .
In Seven Explaining parts this provides answers to key questions on the IIBE as an initial background briefing:
Clearly with any pioneering framework dealing with a comprehensive approach to Business Ecosystems you are constantly asked what measurable benefits do organizations gain from IIBE adoption Let me brifly summarise what organizations gain by adopting the IIBE (Integrated Interconnected Business Ecosystem) Blueprint. There are a number of real measurable benefits: In summary, IIBE adoption translates … Read more
So what if your business wasn’t the unit of growth any more — but the ecosystem you orchestrate or participate in becomes that?
I’m excited to share the IIBE – Integrated Interconnected Business Ecosystem – Blueprint, a framework built for exactly that shift.
In a world where no single organization can respond fast enough, innovate broadly enough or scale deeply enough — the competitive edge is no longer just the enterprise, it’s the ecosystem.
Why now?
Markets are moving faster than internal structures can absorb.
AI is accelerating every business-model transformation.
Sectors like sustainability, mobility, finance, healthcare — all demand collaboration at scale.
The IIBE Blueprint brings a step-change: it positions ecosystem orchestration as the strategic discipline of the 2020s.
It’s practitioner-driven. It combines structure, diagnostics, tools and pathways. AI is embedded, not optional. It’s built as a living system, evolving as partners, platforms and data expand.
1. An Invitation to Renewal
Every age builds the structures that reflect how it thinks and how it values.
-Factories reflected production.
-Corporations reflected efficiency.
-Platforms reflected connection.
But the world now requires something more fluid, more human — something capable of learning and evolving with the pace of change.
That “something” is the ecosystem — not just a model, but a living network of imagination, trust, and shared intelligence.
It is both an invitation and a conviction: to create together what none of us can create alone.
Organizations are facing more tension than ever. They recognize ecosystems are critical but are frozen in different levels of uncertainty- be this investment fatigue, short-tern ROI pressures, internal misalignments abound, the enourmous pressure of AI and what it replaces, challenges or disrupts, and the fear of being confronted by larger scale transformation at times of economic uncertainly.
The last thing most do not want to hear is about another new comprehensive, transforming business model like the Integrated, Interconnected Business Ecosystem (IIBE) blueprint can offer. I get that but this needs to be also viewed through different eyes.
The IIBE offers a pragmatic solution staged over time. Its central premise is actually managing its orchestration, providing this progressive ecosystem alignment, enabling a shift and adaption into Ecosystems at their “given” pace and appetite.
The IIBE blueprint helps organizations to advance at their capabilities and capacities placing this integrated ecosystem thinking, into existing strategy, operations and partnerships- without requiring disruptive transformation. It works with current business models, it builds coherence across existing initiatives and reduces complexity in stages of learning and proof.
The IIBE operates as an alignment tool not intent on delivering a transformation agenda, unless it is necessary due to crisis, recognized need of how ecosystems can reconfigue new markets and competitive advantage as the necessary new competitive edge reguired.
So How Can Organizations Move Forward without those Grand Transforming Everything Approaches?
During this month of September 2025 I (finally) launched my comprehensive approach to Integrated Interconnected Business Ecosystems. It has all somewhat come out in one big rush. Fifteen posts in one month (!) but I took the view this needs explaining, exploring and expanding the thinking that went into it over a long learning and research period.
Moving from a business largely based on linear thinking is really hard to master initally. It takes a real mindshift and commitment to understand the why, how along with the what and when, and then where to apply this within your business, to explore and then learn for expanding it across the organization.
Nothing happens overnight, it does take a structured learning and implementation plan. It takes a dedicated approach of learning and experimenting.
So why do we need a Blueprint for thinking through the Business Ecosystem needs of future business?
We need to appreciate the real business ecosystems we need, they are radically different than most of how we presently undertake Business.
What we first need to do is appreciate this significant difference of what are Business Ecosystems BEFORE we jump into chasing different growth, impact or business opportunity. It needs to recognize the most likely outcome is likely to be a new collaborative Business Model and ask “are we ready for that?”
Are we seeing increasing complexity within the business world? The search for growth is having real impact from changing political realities, regulatory and market conditions. We are in a fractured and polarized world at present and we all have to adapt and change how we go about our business. There is more uncertainty and you judge this as either risk or opportunity. There is a strategic imperative to “open up” to alternatives to how you undertake business or accelerate it.
For me risk or opportunity are the same side of the coin, you can’t gain one without a level of the other playing its part. A business “yin and yang”, the opposite but interconnected and often complementary forces to drive our business forward by applying business ecosystem thinking and design opens up new competitive forces to build into your strategic thinking.
Is the level of “fear” seemingly rising and are our business organizations equipped or not, to draw upon the many alternatives that technology, Gen AI, platforms, networks, collaboration and co-creation opportunities that are offered to manage and rethink new opportunity and risk?
I share this outlined design frame here, clearly to advance Business Ecosystems and provide a framework that enables individuals, groups and (multiple) organizations to begin to organize their conversations into the building blocks to explain and build Ecosystem conversations.
Business ecosystems are complex and often chase down challenges that potentially offer levels of uniqueness and significant improvement on what is existing or known as the existing solutions within the market place but are highly complex in their nature.
In my recent post I provided an initial Ecosystem Business Model frame to introduce and build out a common language and then took that into nine building blocks to get to the point of validating the thinking behind this emerging concept to decide in a further evaluation in a structured way
Providing the full Ecosystem Business Model is the next step